In @dagensnyheter today Tegnell points out that people with their “roots in other countries” (a horrible phrase) have been disproportionately impacted by covid. hhs.se/en/research/sw…
The reason cited is because they “bor inte sällan trångt” which is a lovely indirect way of saying immigrants often live in cramped conditions, with many generations of the same and often have jobs where they must go out and meet people.
But apparently it’s not easy to help these people according to Tegnell. Despite these communities being impacted hard for a second time in the current outbreak. Nothing seems to have changed. dn.se/sverige/tegnel…
The sooner @sweden gets to grips with its own pervasive inequality and moves from a system of equality to a system based on equity the better the country will fare.
In 2016 I was working on a fascinating @SEIresearch project with the goal of increasing the number of women seeking medical care for their pregnancies and deliveries in rurlal #Kenya. I dove down a rabbit hole looking into #electronichealthrecords#EHR and published a..
quickly forgotten conference paper for @NairobiIW and @uonbi. "From paper to data: taking medical health
records into the future". Here are the notes for interested twitterers...
1) A robust health care infrastructure is crucial for protecting public health, particularly during crises such as epidemics, civil wars and disasters. This has never been clearer than it is right now.